Zen In Grey
Posted by Sajith M on Apr 16th, 2007
2007
Apr 16
Designed this wordpress theme for my blog, but feel free to use it if you like it :)
3 column, variable width theme with widget support.
This is my first attempt at creating a wordpress theme, and is based on the theme ZenLike. Let me know what you think.
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Update 2007-10-23: Added gravatar support and updated the stylesheet to fix the problems with paragraph breaks.
Posted under: Projects/Wordpress/Themes
Tagged with: 3 column, theme, variable width, widget, Wordpress
April 18th, 2007 at 00:54:08
Hi Sajith,
Great work. Thats a nice theme.
I Liked it a lot.
Naveen Shukla
Want to see some thing new
April 25th, 2007 at 14:35:56
hi sajith,
good looking theme, i am interested to have exclusive CMS type wp-theme. if you are interested. do let me know at my mail id.
thank you
Pavan
April 27th, 2007 at 17:16:22
hi sajith :)
i love your template.. however, i’m having some problems with it… i was hoping you could help me!
when i write a post, i can’t seem to leave space between lines…!
so something like:
the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
———
shows up like:
the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
———
do you know how i can edit the style sheet to allow the spaces in between lines?
thanks! great job :)
April 27th, 2007 at 19:18:51
Thanks Pavan, but frankly I don’t have the time to do a custom template. Sorry :)
You can though take this template as a base to work on if you want - it’s released under creative commons.
April 27th, 2007 at 19:19:10
Melvin, try setting the line height for <p>, or for <div>. Hope that helps :)
April 29th, 2007 at 23:32:24
Hy,
A great theme, but I’ve a little problem with it.
I installed it in my new wordpress and import the file from my old one.
The problem is that the text of each post is all together: without one space between the lines of paragrafs.
can see the original in:
http://criticaliteraria.wordpress.com
and the Zen in grey version in:
http://arquera.com/slql
It was perfect if you can help me.
Thanks !!
Pau
info (arroba) arquera.com
(From Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
May 28th, 2007 at 02:39:40
I too would like to set a blank line after all paragraphs. You suggested:
June 1st, 2007 at 02:09:19
You may add the following line to your /wp-content/themes/zen-in-grey/style.css file:
.entry p {
padding-bottom: 1.0em;
}
June 17th, 2007 at 05:14:59
Hi,
first: Thank you so much for this fantastic design. I took it for my blog and it works fine! (www.splogg.de)
I solved the problem with the missing blank line by deleting this lines in style.css:
.clear
{
clear: both;
}
Splogger
June 17th, 2007 at 05:40:12
Ups, sorry. Forget my previous post… That’s not true. It works with those lines, only:
.entry p {
padding-bottom: 1.0em;
}
Sorry, again
June 17th, 2007 at 22:01:18
Thanks Aiet and Splogger
August 16th, 2007 at 11:01:32
Hi!
Great theme, but a have problems with the “Recent Comments”. Its no problem to write a comment, but it will not be shown at the right sidebar.
Anye clue what it can be?
Thanks
Roger
August 28th, 2007 at 21:22:24
Nice theme…wonder from where u got it…check out my site. My name is
Sajit Nair…
Site url:www.sajit.co.nr
August 30th, 2007 at 02:02:44
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October 19th, 2007 at 02:48:52
Great theme, same problem with the comments not showing up on the right sidebar. Any clues, Sajith? How did you fix this Roger?
October 22nd, 2007 at 22:18:52
I had the same problem(s):
As far as the line spacing between paragraphs, the above fix works like a charm. The only other thing I would say about it was that I put it in the section of the style.css file under #content. I found that if you put it at the beginning of the css file, it would put a blank line between everything (i.e. Blog Title and Tagline).
The Recent Comments feature likewise did not work for me out of the box either. I was using a plug-in called get-recent-comments for another blog using a different theme and downloaded it for this theme and it works great. You can get that plugin at: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/get-recent-comments/
Other than that, Sajith I commend you for creating a very attractive design. We enjoy it very much.
October 22nd, 2007 at 22:37:08
I am noticing however, that the comments are still suffering from a lack of paragraph breaks. It seems that the comments on this page are doing the same. Does anyone know where to make the fix for the comments?
October 23rd, 2007 at 23:20:49
Roger, Jessie, you can add the comments widget to your right sidebar and it should work fine. In the admin section, go to Presentation -> Widgets and drag and drop the “Recent Comments” widget onto Sidebar 2. Hope that works fine.
Karl, Hopefully the lack of paragraph breaks in comments section is now fixed.
October 24th, 2007 at 20:33:50
Thank you Sajith. That seems to have done the trick.
October 26th, 2007 at 21:56:47
Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: wpstats in
themes/zen-in-grey/header.php on line 13
wp2.3, zen in grey 1.1
October 27th, 2007 at 02:29:34
Jeff, Thanks for pointing that out. Am using wp-Stats for statistics and had referenced that in the header file. I have removed that reference and updated the archive as well. Download the latest version and let me know if it is still a problem.
October 28th, 2007 at 04:05:50
Sajith,
This is a great theme. I have some questions if you don’t mind and am a novice. I am creating several pages through your theme and need subpages for each one. I am curious if you know what code I might be able to enter in order to get the subpages to appear in a drop down format at the top of the screen, just below the parent page names (in your site here, ‘home’ and ‘about’ are your parent pages at the top). I am looking for this only because I am going to have 2-5 subpages for every parent page and I think this will get cluttered if I use the left or right sidebar for my subpages to appear. If you take a look at my site you’ll be able to see that my parent pages are all at the top and that I have taken them out of the sidebar. I’m looking to come up with a way to have the subpage in drop down style. Thanks so much and I hope that what I’m saying makes sense.
October 28th, 2007 at 07:29:32
I noticed there was a mention of a fix for the lack of paragraph breaks in the comment replies. What was the fix? I am having this problem as well and don’t know how to fix it. Additonally, the space between normal blog text and the beginning of a block quote is not the same the end of a blog quote and the resuming of the blog text. It’s as if there isn’t a paragraph break between the end of the block quote and the proceeding regular blog text. Am I making sense?
October 28th, 2007 at 15:03:33
Justin, I have updated the stylesheet in new version to fix the lack of paragraph breaks in the comments sections. Please download the new version, and take a look at the css file (.commentlist section) to see the changes.
Space between blocktext and new paragraph is governed by the margins, you may need to modify the margins used in the stylesheet for the paragraph or blocktext tag.
This theme was designed for a single level of menu, and what you are trying to do is to have two layers. I think you will need to modify the header.php file to fill pages and/or subpages. Take a look at wp_list_pages for more information :-)
November 13th, 2007 at 19:38:50
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November 18th, 2007 at 06:46:00
Firstly, thanks Sajith for creating and sharing this theme! I have now decided that I will stick with this theme on my site. After having spent a couple of hours searching through almost all the themes listed in the Wordpress theme site, this is the best one, in my personal opinion, which is enabled for 3 columns and widgets. Great job thanks.
Secondly, thanks Aiet Kolkhi and Karl for sharing the fix for the line break issue that was having me pull my hair out!
Lastly, it was only my noticing that Sajith had noticed I had used his theme, that I noticed the fixes for the comments and body line break issues… *chuckles* ahh gotta love the net’s interconnectivity ;) Cheers to all of ye guys.
December 5th, 2007 at 00:41:18
I really like the theme (Zen in Grey) but cannot figure out how to get it to take paragraph and line breakes. Even entering straight html code dosen’t work.
You mention that in October you corrected this problem - not on my copy of the theme.
Is the updated verion of the theme located somewhere other than the WP Themes section?
I’d like to use this theme but can’t as is.
Thanks
December 6th, 2007 at 04:31:15
Dave, I have not updated WP-Themes but the download link in this post is updated. Here is the link again.
December 8th, 2007 at 02:55:58
Hi! Great theme. The thing I don’t like is the giant spaces between the widgets in the sidebars. Is there a way to make this space smaller?
Thanks.
December 23rd, 2007 at 08:03:10
great theme - and even better after getting the fix for the above mentioned problems.
I’m still playing with it some to personalize it. It’s becoming more “zen in blooming looneytic”.
can’t thank you enough
December 24th, 2007 at 00:12:49
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December 31st, 2007 at 01:57:50
Sajith, this is a fantastic theme. I recently updated my blog to use your theme. Thanks a lot!
February 8th, 2008 at 02:19:27
This is a great template! A problem I have found is that I can’t seem to activate a trackback link. Or any support for pings?
Anyone else have this issue?
February 24th, 2008 at 14:10:13
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March 13th, 2008 at 19:38:28
Hi!
Excellent theme. I’ve been looking for something like this for a long time. Thanks a lot, you made my day!
March 17th, 2008 at 23:43:30
Great work.
but I have no category included in category (in menu) and nomber near that. Like
City Life (10) > Bangalore (10) >Infrastructure (1)
it is feature?
March 19th, 2008 at 08:44:58
[...] site again (now I’m just competing with Allyn Gibson). I’m using a tweaked version of Zen in Grey. I felt like taking a decompressed approach this time around… something brighter but less [...]
March 19th, 2008 at 22:50:55
Love the theme and this thread has been a great help (I downloaded from WP-Themes and had issues with the paragraph breaks). I just wanted to stop by and thank you for the great work.
April 8th, 2008 at 02:59:01
anyone else having problems with WP 2.5 & this theme?
April 8th, 2008 at 20:42:17
karl, am running 2.5 and not having any problems, what problems are you having?
April 12th, 2008 at 18:17:46
Beautyful theme, thanks!
I made some modifications to it… if you want to see how it’s looking like: Sabrejaponais.fr>
April 14th, 2008 at 21:12:17
Hi Sajith, thank you for a great theme which I have selected for my blog as well. There, however is a small problem. For some reason SnapShots is not working on this theme. I have installed the plug in and it works perfectly with the other themes I tried in this blog, except this particular theme. Any idea?
Bests
IB
April 14th, 2008 at 21:33:31
also, it looks like that the theme (the update version 1.1) comes with Google Advertisements enabled. Is there any way to disable them?
April 15th, 2008 at 23:32:23
Incidental Blogger, thanks for pointing out that I had left the google ads code in there. It has been removed now (r_sidebar.php is the only file that got updated). The theme zip file has been updated. Download it from here.
April 16th, 2008 at 18:45:25
Many thanks Sajith. It worked. I must congratulate you to come up possibly with the best WP theme. Just so that it can be made even better - thought I should bring this to your attention that I could not make the theme work with SnapShots. Something in the code is preventing the previews.
Thanks again and have a nice day.
Regards,
IB
April 17th, 2008 at 08:42:33
Incidental Blogger, Snap Shots should be working now. Updated the theme again (change in footer.php). Download link
April 19th, 2008 at 02:00:59
it works Sajith, fantastic ! many many thanks.
April 20th, 2008 at 17:05:47
Sajith your plugin is really the best! :)
Could you tell me (or link me a tutorial) how you did to list pages as a horizontal menu?
And how you put a dot on the left of categories, archives, etc on sidebar. Could you point me where it is on css?
tnx a lot for your theme :D
May 16th, 2008 at 06:39:08
Love the theme! It’s perfect for my site.
Likambo.com Thanks for making it available.
May 31st, 2008 at 23:46:55
I want to thank you for a beautiful theme. I would like to make two small changes but don’t know much about css and I’m hoping that you can take the time to help me.
I would like to make the title of my posts bigger. For example 14 pts. If you are someone on here can tell me what I need to change to make this happen that would be great.
Also, is there any way to make the space in between the sidebar information.
Thanks.
Matt
http://www.idealcrap.com
June 18th, 2008 at 01:31:51
Hi; I love your theme. But, I would like to know how to remove the bullet points in the sidebars?
Thanks!~
June 29th, 2008 at 18:30:27
Hi. Great template! I have one question.
How can I add some text to the right of the header image? (not text in the header image itself but to the right of it.). I’m trying to put adsense adds there.
thanks for any help.
July 8th, 2008 at 14:16:23
thx allot I’ve always liked this theme and the latest updates solves the few things I didn’t like about it.
I’ve heavily modded the theme and am using it with two sites.
http://clintisageek.com/
and
http://killerotakurobots.com/
August 7th, 2008 at 18:41:35
Hey Sajith,
I love this theme and am using it to build a website. I was wondering if you had any advice on a small problem I’m having. I am trying to do some pretty simple alignment with three images that I would like to have arranged side by side (but with some space between each) on this webpage: http://girlwpen.com/?page_id=4.
I’ve classed the images as “right” “centered” and “left” and have been trying to play around with the margins, but the right image always gets pushed off to the side for some reason, no matter what I do. I was wondering if you had any advice on what I might be overlooking in trying to align the themes, or if there is a plugin that you know of that would help me play around with images better ?
Many thanks for all your help and a beautiful theme!
August 7th, 2008 at 20:03:49
Hi Kristen,
Don’t know of any plug-in that would allow you to play with images. Here is the code that would allow you to place the images reasonably well (it’s not perfect)
Replace this block of code:
<p><img src='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3025/2665930694_3d5302e022.jpg?v=0' alt='Left' class='left' /><img src='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3025/2665930694_3d5302e022.jpg?v=0' alt='Center' class='centered' /><img src='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3025/2665930694_3d5302e022.jpg?v=0' alt='Right' class='right' /></p>with this one:
<div style="width:100%; clear: both; float: right;">
<img src=’http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3025/2665930694_3d5302e022.jpg?v=0′ alt=’Left’ style="float: left;" />
<img src=’http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3025/2665930694_3d5302e022.jpg?v=0′ alt=’Center’ style="float: left; position: absolute; left:45%" />
<img src=’http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3025/2665930694_3d5302e022.jpg?v=0′ alt=’Right’ style="float: right;" />
</div>
August 13th, 2008 at 15:24:37
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August 13th, 2008 at 15:48:36
dear mister sajith
I thank you for your theme. And I also do some modification with this theme, of course I don’t delete your credit.